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Castlegar News Morch 13, 1985

Reagan wants meeting

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ronald Reagan
wants newly installed Communist party chief Mikhail
Gorbachev to come to the United States for the first
superpower summit meeting in six years, officials say.

Reagan's invitation was carried to Moscow by
Vice-President George Bush, who hoped to meet with
Gorbachev following today's funeral for Soviet President
Konstantin Chernenko, who died Sunday.

An administration official who spoke on condition he not
be identified said Tuesday the Reagan letter proposed a
meeting in the United States, but did not specify a time.

The official said the president didn't list any conditions
for a summit in the letter. However, earlier Tuesday, White
House spokesman Larry Speakes listed several require-
ments for a top-level meeting.

Speakes said that in weighing the pros and cons of a
possible summit, Reagan would consider such factors as an
agenda for the talks, where a meeting would take place,
whether the setting was conducive to discussions, and if the
talks might be beneficial.

“If it is possible to arrange such a meeting with full and
careful preparations, we believe it could make a constructive
contribution to the development of our relations with the
Soviet Union,” Speakes said.

Speakes said the administration no longer was
demanding concrete results from a top-level exchange
between the U.S. and Soviet leaders. He said with the
opening of arms control negotiations, relations between
Washington and Moscow have improved.

EXPRESSES HOPE

Spakes said besides expressing Reagans’ hopes for a
summit, the letter also reflects U.S. pleasure with the tone
of the new Soviet leader's public remarks and a hope
Moscow will join Washington in serious arms control
bargaining.

While Reagan did not meet with any of the three earlier
Kremlin leaders during his administration, officials noted
that Gorbachev, 54, unlike his predecessors, is young and
vigorous and likely to remain in power for years to come.

“It's not that our position has changed,” said Robert

Sims, another White House spokesman. “It’s that the nature
of their leadership has changed.”

In a shouted exchange with reporters on the departure
from the White House of Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, Reagan said he has been willing to meet with a
Soviet leader “ever since I've been here” and that we “would
look forward to a meeting.”

An inii ion official, y ly. said
Reagan sent a message when Chernenko took power,
suggesting a meeting, but that’ it was “not as forward
leaning as we are now.”

With his latest public statements and private message
to Gorbachev, Reagan “has not tried to make it something
that would be looked upon as a ploy to get attention or get
some propaganda advantage over the Soviets,” the official
said.

At a news conference last June, Reagan said he\was
willing to meet with Chernenko without prior assurances
that a summit would produce concrete results. Before that,
the president had insisted that he would not go to a summit
to ease tensions with the Soviets unless the groundwork for
success had been laid.

Mulroney to meet
with Gorbachev

TORONTO (CP) — Prime transition of power took
Minister Brian Mulroney con- place in the Soviet Union fol-
firmed today that he will lowing Chernenko’s death
meet with new Soviet leader Sunday, adding that Gorba-

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Mikhail Gorbachev in Mos-
cow on Thursday.

In a Broadcast News inter.
view from the Soviet capital,
Mulroney said he chatted in-
formally with Gorbachev at a
reception following the
funeral of President Konstan-
tin Chernenko today.

The prime minister said
the two arranged to meet
Thursday, shortly before
Mulroney returns to Ottawa
to prepare for his so-called
Shamrock Summit with U.S.
President Ronald Reagan in
Quebec City on Sunday, St.
Patrick's Day.

Mulroney said he is im-
pressed by how smoothly the

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chev is clearly in control.

The prime minister also
said the fate of the U.S.-
Soviet arms control talks in
Geneva is on the minds of
Canadians, and that he'll ex-
press that concern to Gor-
bachev at Thursday's meet-
ing.

The prime minister re-
called that Gorbachev's first
official trip as a member of
the Politburo was to Canada
in 1983, and that the new

PROGRESS . . . Work is progressing on the chapel
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has four bers of new K: \ w i Hing
vapor barrier and strapping in the house prior to the
arrival of an electrical contractor. Shown here outside

the house are (from left) Alex Lutz, Katimavik mem-
bers Alain Champagne, Doug Trywick, and George
Cc eldave, an old friend of Mr. Zuckerberg, who
recently paid a visit to the island. Missing are
Katimavik workers Mario Pare and Dave Pokrandt.

CosNews Photo by John Charters

Soviet leader exp fond
memories of that visit.

Mulroney's press secre-
tary, Bill Fox, said the
meeting with Gorbachev is
set for 12:40 p.m. Moscow
time (1:40 a.m. Castlegar
time) Thursday.

HECTIC DAY

Meanwhile, Mulroney had
a hectic round of meetings
with world leaders in Mos-
cow today, and the prime
minister said he will meet
with other leaders besides
Gorbachev on Thursday.

Mulroney said he talked
today with U.S. Vice-Presi-
dent George Bush and State
Secretary George Shultz,
who represented Reagan. He
did not disclose the subject of
their talks, but described the
discussions as helpful.

This morning, Mulroney
met with Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.
Mulroney's press secretary,
Bill Fox, said those talks fo-
cused largely on the issue of
trade and included an in
vitation to Nakasone to visit
Canada later this year.

VANCOUVER (CP) — A message, abrupt, threaten.
ing and apparently authored by a group of “brothers,”
warned of future kidnappings and was delivered two days
after a Chinese couple were abducted, friends of the slain
couple said.

The bodies of Jimmy Ming, 29, and his wife Lilly, 30
kidnapped Jan. 20, were found on the weekend wrapped

Note contained warning

“We want to have a meeting first,” he said. “But
restaurant owners are not very rich.”

Ted Huang, a longtime friend of the Ming’ family,
said “reliable sources” within the city's Chinese
community link a Vietnamese youth gang to the
kidnap-slaying.

Supt. Ray MeNeney said the major crimes squad is

in bags in dense brush below the Sq ighway
north of Vancouver.

A close friend of the Ming family said the ransom
note read: “You have a good family. You have a good
business. We don't have anything.

“We have a lot of ‘brothers’ and you won't catch us
all. We are even in the United States. You will not be the
last. There will be other restaurants.”

The couple's abductors demanded a ransom of
$700,000 — a figure called unrealistic by police and family
friends, considering the financial situation of the Mings.

Autopsies were conducted Monday but results were
not available.

BODIES DISMEMBERED

The Ming family told friends the couple was
strangled and their bodies dismembered.

Ha Wong, chairman of the Chinese Restaurant
Workers A iation of V; , wouldn't on
the statement in the ransom note that the kidnappers had
targeted other restaurants.

“all avenues, including the possible
involvement of youth gangs.”

Last fall, police launched major investigations into
gang activities in Chinatown after reports of violence.
The igati led to charges — includ
one of second-degree murder — against suspected gang
members.

MAN ABDUCTED

In October 1983, a Chinese engineer was abducted by
two gang members and held captive for six days while his
wife tried to raise $300,000 ransom. Johnson Ting was
freed by police who raided a Vancouver hotel.

MeNeney said despite occasional contact with the
kidnappers, no exchange of the ransom money for the
victims was set up.

While McNeney said there could have been a number
of motives for the kidnapping and slaying, saddened
leaders of Vancouver's Chinese community say the
double murder is an unwelcome product of the growth of
Chinatown and the poor economy

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Father
sentenced
in court

KELOWNA (CP) The
mastermind behind a family
drug smuggling scheme was
sentenced Tuesday in pro
vincial court to three years in
prison.

Dennis Henry Knapp, 44,
of Cache Creek, was sen.
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